me – and a lot of others I asume – are waiting for the next part(s) of this series

Start with Ron de Bruin’s Change the Ribbon in Excel 2007 or Excel 2010. Then pick up the oustanding book RibbonX: Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon, by Robert Martin, Ken Puls, and Teresa Hennig.

And thanks for reminding me to get working on the last few articles in that series.

Correct, I manipulate both menu bars. Not terribly elegant: sometimes I hit both in a loop, other times I have entries for both in the menu data table. Almost everything that I add to the Worksheet Menu Bar’s Tools menu is also added to the Chart Menu Bar’s Tools menu, and vice versa.

Good commentary.

In order to walk before trying to run with classic Excel custom menus, I’m seeing what I can do with J-Walk’s MenuMakr that you mentioned. (If it was a good enough starting point for you . . .)

Am I right that in order to adapt MenuMakr for Excel charting, one likely would want to tweak it to manage CommandBars(“Chart Menu Bar”) instead of just of just “Worksheet Menu Bar”? Seems like it might be common to have partially overlapping lists of macros that a developer would want to add to those two standard menus — to preserve context sensitivity.

Apparently your code elegantly juggles three toolbars at once. In order to someday appreciate it, I’d better practice my toss with just one or two balls at a time.

I have used .Tag is some cases. I guess here the .Caption seemed easy enough.